[Now this is the story that has to be crushed into the 3 minutes of the song from the show. Original boy often in red. Cat boy often in white.
Meow, the Secret Boy - Better to be You - Drew Ryan Scott]
Several reasons. One is that the Asian shows still retain the moral environment that many of us were raised with before the 60’s. So instead of having to watch horrible shows on American TV that DO give moral lessons, you can watch incredibly wonderful shows that give those same moral lessons.
Of course there are themes that occur in Asian shows as there are in American shows, but somehow the writers are allowed more artist and creative freedom. It used to be that you’d watch an American show and (ho hum) here’s the car chase scene. The same shows, over and over again.
The Asian shows take a theme and turn it totally on its head so that your jaw drops and you say, “What did they just do?”
Of course, American writers COULD write like that. Something in the Hollywood stream is stifling that creativity.
Also, we’re in the days of crowd sourcing. So Asian dramas now don’t have to pay money to get subtitles. They have organized ways of getting volunteers to create them. So we have access to many that would have never been available in the past.
viki.com for mostly Korean dramas, but many Chinese
iq.com for the reverse, mostly Chinese with many Korean
And the comments sections on viki give a chance to become part of an enthusiastic fan community.